mefoster /mefoster DANM210 /CV

ARTIST STATEMENT - I AM (in no particular order): Hapa, Japanese-American, Queer, a multi-media artist, a videomaker, a haphazard blogger, an activist, an occasionally excellent cook

CV:

Education:

Digital Arts/New Media - University of California Santa Cruz MFA 2009

Film and Sociology – The Evergreen State College BA 2007

Selected Work:

Queer Spaces – DV Experimental Documentary on what makes up a queer space and the politics of spaces within queer communities. Summer 2007

PrismaTIC! – 16mm and DV fiction short piece on criminalization of the homeless and queer identity – involves a performance bike film and a murder mystery. Fall/Winter/Spring 2007

Queer People of Color Performance directed and co-wrote by Miki Foster. Performance included monologues and group performance pieces featuring fifteen people from the Evergreen QPOC community. Fall/Winter 2007

What Are you? – Digital Video - Documentary featuring interviews and performances by five mixed race women. Winter 2006

Trace Elements – Digital Video - Experimental Documentary featuring interviews with family members, 8mm archival footage and experimental narrative. Spring 2005

Presentations:

Telematic Presence/Telematic Agency - Discussing the Work of Roy Ascott

Women’s Sexuality in Music Videos – Summer 2006

Writing: “Queer People of Color Performance Activism and the Politics of Representation” Paper on Queer People of Color performance theory and the politics of QPOC performances. Spring 2007

“Towards a Post Colonial Art Form” Essay on the colonial foundations of art and the possibility and limits of resistance art forms. Spring 2006

“Go For Broke! Japanese Americans in Hawaii over four Generations” Ethnographic history of my family and surrounding community in Hawaii. Spring 2005

In addition to my work as an artist I’ve also been closely involved in organizing with several groups in Olympia and Seattle. A few of the groups that I’ve worked closely with are the Women of Color Coalition and the Queer People of Color Project, Stonewall Youth, Communities Against Rape and Abuse, the INCITE Network, and the Gateways Program for Incarcerated Youth.

Narrative Biography (98 words): Miki Foster is a performance and media artist/activist. Her work is focused on the intersections of identity, race, gender and sexuality. Her current work on the way violence and resistance is mediated and realized through digital medium questions the way bodies are constructed and engaged in digitalized environments for the profit of multi-national companies. Through the use of video, installation, performance and digital music her pieces explore mixed race and queer people of color identity, Japanese-American families, colonization, prisons, sexuality and gender while questioning the limits and construction of aesthetics and technology in art making. Recently she co-wrote and directed a collaborative piece on Queer People of Color community building and experiences surrounding higher education. The piece, Queer People of Color Project Performance, was performed at five different venues over the course of 2007.